Edinburgh festivals: awards and acclaim – and exhaustion – for Irish performers
As the international and fringe festivals close, Irish teams reflect on a good month
Sean Hughes: coruscating comic talent who never compromised
Youngest ever winner of the Perrier Prize, he became the UK’s biggest stand-up attraction
Robin Williams: So plentiful were his gifts he rarely reached for ‘off’ switch
He always said he was most liberated when doing stand-up – protected by the force field of genius the way he was not when he was ‘Robin Williams’ walking down the street
Sean Hughes: ‘I would have done anything for Ireland except live there’
Growing up between London and Dublin left me without a strong identity but unable to shake off my inherent Irishness
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